triggers
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"Weaker or less durable AI investments and profitability could be a shock that triggers a market correction," the report said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
"Ultra-processed food triggers dopamine, the pleasure hormone, which promotes craving. Food companies work with scientists to find just the right amount of sugar, salt, and fat that make you want to eat more and more."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Even moving something from one box to another triggers a brief encounter with the past.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Building on earlier work, including a program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Stanford programmed the monitors with time delays and conditional triggers so that some monitor readings didn’t automatically set off an alarm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
There were two specific triggers that encouraged Copernicus to come up with something better than the Ptolemaic model.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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